[CQ-Contest] Self-spotting gotcha

[Steve London]

N1MM+ has had a solution to this for many years. You can blacklist spotters
so that their spots will not show up in your bandmap.

73,
Steve, N2IC

On Sat, Dec 3, 2022 at 10:13 AM Pete Smith N4ZR <pete.n4zr at gmail.com> wrote:

> I suspect that many of us filter incoming spots so we will only see
> those originating where we can also reasonably expect to hear the
> spotted station.  For example, I only see spots from states surrounding
> mine.  Presumably, a self-spot coming from station X will appear on the
> cluster network as originating at Station X's location, rather than at a
> distant location where Station X might logically be heard.
>
> In a way, this goes right to the principle that self-spotting violates ,
> by making the self-spotted station be the spotter, rather than someone
> actually receiving its signal.
>
> --
> 73, Pete N4ZR
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